From J C

Yesterday, American Greatness ran an encouraging story headlined, “17 State Attorneys General Declare Support for Florida Trans Guidance.”

Earlier this year, a bunch of pro-trans organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, sued the State of Florida over its law providing that Medicaid funds may not be used to genitally mutilate children or for any other “affirmation” procedures for kids, including sex change surgery, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers.

Yesterday, 17 states rallied to Florida’s aid, filing a brief supporting Florida’s commonsense law, including: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia. The brief stated, “The amici States submit this brief in support of Florida’s right to regulate medicine and determine appropriate treatments for Medicaid coverage. Moreover, there is particular reason to be suspicious of the interest groups in this case.”

You don’t say.

Florida has also punched back, filing aggressive discovery requests against the pro-mutilation plaintiffs and spicily seeking pointed discovery from the Biden Administration. Recently the judge overruled the plaintiffs’ objections and ordered them to produce the requested documents.

So.